Canadian school bans Northern Lights

[UnquietDad]

All about it here

I'm amused by the fact that they've had the books on the library shelves, presumably, for a good few years, and have only just noticed that the author is - gasp, shock, horror! - an atheist. It's not as if PP attempts to make any secret of the fact!

All about control. As usual.

(Do you think I could ask for the Bible to be removed from my local children's library because of all the sex and horrific violence in it? Nope, thought not.)

[UnquietDad]

Just like the fanatics who wanted to burn/ban Harry Potter books.

[QuintessentialShadowOfYuleTide]

Are they going to ban Walt Disney next?

[EmsMum]

yeah, theres a really subversive song in Winnie the Pooh's Most Grand Adventure....

[fortunecookie]

Canadians are generally great people but many of them are so OTT PC it's just not true.

[Threadworm]

I read the books recently and I was stunned at how radically atheist and humanist they are. Not what you would neccesarily expect from a children's story.

It is completely brilliant that Pullman has managed to generate a rich and beautiful humanist mythology based on the Christian mythology.

[fortunecookie]

And banning any book, apart from being completely unethical, is like waving a red flag to a bull. Excellent promotion really, isn't it?

[UnquietDad]

Hmm, nicely timed for the film!!

[EmsMum]

But 'apparently written by an atheist' what planet are these folk on?

[UnquietDad]

The same planet, I assume as George H. Bush, who said in 1989 that atheists didn't count as citizens.